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OH&S News
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New DOL Web Portal Provides Job Postings, Training Programs
The website's features include information about occupational skills that can be transferred from one job to another and links to local training programs.
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BP Inquiry Says Multiple Failures Caused Explosion
One of the eight "key findings" is the first action to control the well, routing the rising oil and gas to the mud gas separator system aboard the Deepwater Horizon platform. If they had been routed overboard instead, the accident might have been less severe, the investigative panel concluded.
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Report Backs Safer Technologies Law
Recommendation #6 from the Chemical Emergencies Work Group supports a bill using an approach to inherently safer technologies (IST) that the U.S. chemical industry opposes.
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Trapped Chilean Miners Watch Soccer Match
Franklin Lobos, a trapped miner who once played professionally for various teams in northern Chile and was part of the national team in 1984, acted as the match commentator.
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Dollar Tree Stores Hit with $56K Fine
The OSHA area director urged the company to evaluate all of its store locations for hazards after this latest filing.
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Product Contamination Insurance Prompted by Food Recalls
A new policy being launched by XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd goes beyond standard policies by offering coverage for government recalls.
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Landowners, Businesses Ordered to Halt Hazwaste Pollution at Chemical Processing Site
An inspection’s sampling of water from various locations on the property confirmed the discharge of boron, arsenic, copper, ammonia, zinc, chromium, cobalt, manganese, nickel, selenium, aluminum, barium, cadmium, and 2-Butanone into the Weaver Branch tributary.
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October Events Focus on Preventing Dust Explosions
An Oct. 19 seminar and Oct. 20-21 symposium are in Kansas City, Mo., sponsored by the NFPA and its affiliated Fire Protection Research Foundation, will include a case study by Imperial Sugar's vice president of Manufacturing & Engineering.
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Seattle-Area Cardiac Arrest Survival Rate at 46 Percent
The EMS 2010 report, released Sept. 2, says the King County survival rate for witnessed cases of ventricular fibrillation of 46 percent makes it a national leader in that area.
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CSB Commissions Methyl Isocyanate Study
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is responding to a congressional mandate for a yearlong, $575,000 study by the National Academy of Sciences on how to reduce or eliminate the stockpile at Bayer CropScience's plant in Institute, W.Va.
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